The name of the group that Bill Grant ([link= George Burns)'s poker playing buddies called themselves was the "No Shirts Gang". This is because they were all ex-magicians and had to play with their shirts off so nobody could cheat.
One of the lobby cards for this film shows George Burns in a deleted scene visiting Tower Records at 8801 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood in Los Angelese, California, USA.
Like his character Bill Grant, George Burns was also an ex-vaudevillian who had performed with his late wife. In real life, Burns' late spouse was Gracie Allen who had passed away in 1964. Honolulu (1939) had been their final theatrical feature film collaboration. It had debuted in the same 1939 year that co-star Ray Bolger had famously starred as 'The Scarecrow' in M-G-M's The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Reportedly, actress Brooke Shields's salary for her role as Kate was apparently US $250,000 plus a percentage of the profits according to a contract filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court of California, USA being reported in an article published in the 15th November 1978 issue of 'The Los Angeles Times' newspaper.
One of four cinema movies that then rising star Brooke Shields was seen in during the year 1979. The four films are 'Tilt' (1979), 'Wanda Nevada' (1979), 'Just You and Me, Kid' (1979) and 'An Almost Perfect Affair' (1979).